By Leslie Smith and Ethan Clauset
For travelers and farmers headed to market in southern Orange County for most of the nineteenth century, the only way to get there was to travel the old dirt roads from Pittsboro and Durham and the wagon road from Hillsborough. Robert F. Hoke, a former Confederate general, saw the opportunity [...]
Signal Fest returns. The Southeast Electronic Music Festival will be held from Thursday, April 10 to Sunday, April 13 in Carrboro and Chapel Hill. In its third year, local and international performers meet to spin, mix and sample. Signalfest is growing and offering a diverse lineup of electronic artists. This year’s perfomers include Jinx, DJ [...]
The Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance rolls around again, this time with the Spring festival. From Thursday, April 17 to Sunday, April 20, dozens of bands perform danceable roots music at the Shakori Hills farmstead in Chatham County, about 20 miles from Chapel Hill.
April showers of performance art bring May flowers of expanded universal consciousness and love. Far out, man.
With that said … music this month! Check out Howlin’ Rain headlining the 506 on the fourth (that’s a Friday), backed up by Nightstick and Stratocruiser.
Saturday night, Cat’s Cradle throws a free show to say goodbye to Schoolkids Records [...]
The ArtsCenter
John McCutcheon (4/6)
Shelby Lynne (4/10)
Jason Collett w/ Paddy Casey (4/15)
Billy Joe Shaver w/ Larry Mangum (4/18)
Shawn Mullins (4/20)
Nick Lowe w/ Ron Sexsmith (4/23)
Ruthie Foster (4/24)
Where can you ride the Eggmobile or the Mulchmobile; buy fresh produce, meat and cheese; learn about sustainable farming; or see cows, fainting goats, ducks, llamas, donkeys, sheep and even UNC mascot Rameses? The answer, of course, is the 13th annual Piedmont Farm Tour, sponsored by the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, on Saturday, April 19, [...]
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